What a busy week it has been! I will try to sum up everything quickly
because there is a lot to cover, gel? Last Tuesday was a Zone Training
meeting in Stuttgart- and boy was i inspired! We talked about our goal
as a mission- 290 baptisms- and how we havent reached it yet, and that
we needed to have a special fast to reach this goal! We talked about
having the hope and faith to ask Heavenly Father to help us reach the
goal- i just felt the spirit so strong testifing to us that if we
dedicate ourselves, he will help us achieve his purposes. So pumped for
these next few weeks cause I know hes going to be helping us!
that evening we met with a new Investigator of ours- Herr Fischer.
He is a Jehovahs Witness who saw us dooring on his street and invited us
because he was curious what was driving us young people to do such a
thing, in another country. We gave him a Book of Mormon, and had a
really intense discussion. He asked me a LOT of hard doctrinal
questions, dealing with the old testament and such- i know the spirit
helped me because somehow my answers seemed to satisfy him, and he said
we could come back in 2 weeks. Cool!
Wednesday
morning early we went to help the Rückauer family with some service-
they have been renovating the house, and they knocked out a cinder block
wall, and we needed to clean up the wreckage. We moved about 1,64 Tons
of stone- it was pretty tiring. and the foundation of the wall was still
there, because he could get it out. So they gave me a sledge hammer and
asked me to try. I actually got about 3/4 of the wall out, when I broke
the hammer- the wood snapped!- so i had to use a mini jack hammer to
get the rest. ill send some pictures when i get more time because we
were COVERED in white dust from head to foot- it was pretty funny
looking, and i think my lungs might be permanently coated with brick,
but oh well. That night, we went and helped of the young men in the ward
with English homework, and then had a lesson with Fritz. the discussion
was "Why does god let bad things happen?"- Elder Dickson and I had
studied some scriptures and even pulled President Monsons conference
talk where he talks about the man who couldnt see or hear, but was still
grateful to god. Well, this lesson got interesting. Thomas, our other
investigator shows up at the church, and sits in on the lesson, pretty
random. So we are teaching BOTH of them, and when we read from the talk
about the man still being grateful, although all the bad things
happened, Thomas blurts out "Well, clearly hes lying. That guys life is
awful!"- so the lesson just fell apart after that haha. Our poor joint
teach is a kid preparing to go a mission in a couple weeks, so that must
have been a fun thing for him!
Thursday
morning we rode a bus up to a pretty dorf called Rechberghausen- on the
way we were talking to some people in the bus- long story short, we
were trying to share the gospel, and i told a joke and we got the whole
bus (literally, everyone) laughing there heads off. No one was
interested, but atleast we brightened their day! we had lunch with
Schwester Körner, and her grandson, a less active. When we made it back
to Göppingen, we grabbed ANOTHER bus back Ohmden, to the Rückauer
family, this time just for dinner. WOW. their house is GORGEOUS. its my
dream home. It used to be a barn, but they renovated everything, and it
is SO COOL now. the Rückauers live right next to their brother, both are
active members, and they have 9 kids between the two families, all
under 14. its a party of cousins! and to top off how cool these people
are, Sister Rückauer was an Olympic Ice hockey player for Germany, and
played in Salt Lake in 2002. So COOL! After that dinner, we had ward
council. that was a nightmare. I dont even want to talk about that.
Friday-
we met with our american Investigator, James! He had read in the Book
of Mormon, and loved it! We watched the Restoration video, and he said
after " a little voice inside tells me that its true- wow" IT WAS SO
COOL! So we talked about baptism- and he is seriously going to consider
it, and we are going back on wednesday! woot!
Saturday
we were doing service in Heidenheim... again. they need alot of help
over there! we painted walls, then we were joint teaches for the other
elders investigator Queen- she is so ready for baptism is crazy!
Sunday was the primary program! It made me miss our ward so much! The kids did such a good job though, and I loved it.
Essentially,
we were SUPER busy. But thats the way we like it! We are expecting
miracles, and we hope that you will pray will us as well to see the
things the lord has in store for us!
P.s. Christmas is coming... im STOKED! The german christms markets look so cool!
Well, time is up! I love you all!
Special congrats to Kyle and Victoria getting married! I love you guys!
Adventure is out there!
Elder Bartholomew
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